I Had No Reason As a Child To Hate my Dad

And so I was brought up believing that my father had cruelly abandoned, not just my mother, but also both my sister and I.

“You are definitely better off without him”

As I entered my late pre-teens I became more aware of my one parent status within our close-knit community. I remember our neighbours and friends always providing moral and emotional support for my mother with comments such as“you do so well for a single mum,”“you are definitely better off without him,”“you are doing such an amazing job bringing up your two little girls after what he put you through.”

“All I hope is that I have done my best to protect them from what he did to me.”

I remember my mother replying to these numerous comments with replies such as“thank you so much, I wouldn’t have been able to get through this without your help,”“I try my best and all I want is the best for my two girls,”“all I hope is that I have done my best to protect them from what he did to me.”